Subject: Re: bin/12740: fstat allows an unprivileged user to see open files belonging to other users
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org (NetBSD GNATS submissions and\>
From: Anne Bennett <anne@alcor.concordia.ca>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/24/2001 16:05:40
>> I'm afraid I managed to miss the "silly discussion" about restricting
>> ps; I imagine I would find it interesting and not silly, though.
>
> It took (is taking) place on the <tech-kern@netbsd.org> mailing list.
Thank you; I shall consider joining.
>> I used the web form on the www.netbsd.org
>> site. I'm a bit puzzled that this wasn't clear from the message headers.
>
> Ah! I see. Very interesting indeed. Perhaps the instructions on the
> web form, and in particular the field where the sender's email address
> is to be entered, need to be made more clear, though they seem fairly
> clear to me right now. Perhaps there's a bug in the form handling code
> and it's confusing the e-mail field with the name field or some such, or
> maybe it's not correctly parsing the value of the e-mail field.
Before anyone wastes time looking into this, it turns out to be
carelessness on my part; I managed to reverse the two fields. The form
itself is crystal clear; my mistake. Sorry about that.
Anne.
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